SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #17
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8:49 and 27 seconds narrows it even more.
So, she was on her phone reading texts. In all probability standing still.
Well it wasn’t Maggie holding her phone as she was shot by then
arielilane
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Paul and Maggie Murdaugh's haunting final text messages are revealed
The prosecution say a video Paul took at 8.44pm to send to a friend places Alex Murdaugh, 54, at the murder scene - despite his claim he only saw them there after they were killed.
arielilane
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It's chilling hearing about phone info knowing the phone belonged to murdered person. Sad.
Secret Service?? To who?
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Now going into "steps" recorded by the phone - how your cell phone records steps.
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I believe an agent with the Secret Service was the one to finally unlock PM's cell phone (he had a passcode on it that other agencies hadn't been able to crack).
ETA: They stated that PM's phone was an iPhone 11.
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Recess until 9:30 AM ET on Wednesday 2/1.
arielilane
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Afternoon tweets
We're back.
Dove: Call logs show Maggie Murdaugh's last phone call was at 7:50 p.m. 6/7/21. She called someone named Barbara. The call lasted 2 minutes, 46 seconds.
Dove: Call logs show Alex Murdaugh called Maggie Murduagh 3 times in the span of 3 minutes around the time he left Moselle that evening. 9:04:23 pm 9:06:14 pm 9:06:51 pm Then he called her twice more, apparently on his way back. 9:45:32 pm 10:03:58 pm She didn't answer.
Remember: In his opening statement, lead prosecutor Creighton Waters told the jury it would be up to them to decide whether Alex Murdaugh was trying to manufacture an alibi for himself that night.
Dove is now reviewing a report of Maggie Murdaugh's texts on the day she was killed, 6/7/21.
Prosecutor takes care to note that this report shows whether Maggie read the message or not.
Again, this is part of the state's effort to establish Maggie and Paul's times of death. Prosecutors want to condense the timeline between their deaths and when evidence places Alex Murdaugh at the scene that evening.
Dove: Maggie got a text from John Marvin Murdaugh to her and other relatives at 8:31:00 p.m. that evening. She read it 16 seconds later. She read another text from the same group text at 8:49:27 p.m. But she never read a 9:34:14 p.m. text from Rogan Gibson.
Dove: John Marvin had texted Maggie and other relatives that evening saying he planned to visit his father, Randolph Murdaugh III, in the hospital the next day and asking who else was planning to go.
Dove: Alex Murdaugh texted Maggie at 9:08:58 p.m. that evening, around the time he left Moselle. She never read it.
Prosecutors are reviewing findings from Maggie's phone data with Dove, including that her phone was unplugged from power at 8:17:15 p.m. At 8:49:27 p.m., she got a text (from the family group chat) and opened her phone to read it.
The state is building something here Prosecutor: data show Maggie's phone orientation changed (portrait to landscape) in the minutes after Maggie's phone locked for the rest of the night. (It locked 8:49:31 p.m.) Only a small number of things could cause that, Dove testifies.
Dove testifies that based on the changing of the phone's orientation and the one-second activation of the phone's camera, it appears someone who wasn't Maggie picked up the phone. The camera activated and scanned their face, but didn't unlock the phone.
The phone changed orientation and its camera activated at 8:54 p.m., five minutes after the device locked. Maggie's phone wasn't unlocked again until after 1 p.m. the next day, 6/8/21.
OK, this is something here: Prosecutor establishes that Maggie's phone orientation changed again to portrait at 9:06:12 p.m. that night, indicating someone held it up in their hand (according to Dove). Two seconds later, the phone gets an incoming call from Alex Murdaugh.
The prosecutor is establishing a 2-second distance between when someone holds up Maggie's phone and when Alex calls it. Seeming to imply that Alex killed Maggie, grabbed her phone and began holding it up with one hand while he called it with the other.
Maggie gets a couple more text messages after that, one from Rogan Gibson asking her to have Paul call him. And one from Alex Murdaugh at 9:47:23 p.m.: "Call me babe."
She never read either. Her phone wasn't used again until the next day, when investigators found it.
I have taken 26 pages of notes.
This prosecutor is Assistant Attorney General John Conrad, by the way.
Maggie's phone recorded 38 steps on 6/7/21 at 8:17 pm, 43 steps at 8:30 pm and 59 steps at 8:53 pm The last 59 steps were after the phone had locked for good, around the time the phone tried to scan a face but didn't unlock. Then no more steps until it was found the next day.
Prosecutor Conrad tells the judge that he's at a good stopping point, and we break for the day. That's a lot to simmer on.
We wouldn't be able to see them even if they had those diagrams.
Conrad jumped back and forth throughout the timeline. Going to do some homework tonight to try to make sense of that.
We're back.
Dove: Call logs show Maggie Murdaugh's last phone call was at 7:50 p.m. 6/7/21. She called someone named Barbara. The call lasted 2 minutes, 46 seconds.
Dove: Call logs show Alex Murdaugh called Maggie Murduagh 3 times in the span of 3 minutes around the time he left Moselle that evening. 9:04:23 pm 9:06:14 pm 9:06:51 pm Then he called her twice more, apparently on his way back. 9:45:32 pm 10:03:58 pm She didn't answer.
Remember: In his opening statement, lead prosecutor Creighton Waters told the jury it would be up to them to decide whether Alex Murdaugh was trying to manufacture an alibi for himself that night.
Dove is now reviewing a report of Maggie Murdaugh's texts on the day she was killed, 6/7/21.
Prosecutor takes care to note that this report shows whether Maggie read the message or not.
Again, this is part of the state's effort to establish Maggie and Paul's times of death. Prosecutors want to condense the timeline between their deaths and when evidence places Alex Murdaugh at the scene that evening.
Dove: Maggie got a text from John Marvin Murdaugh to her and other relatives at 8:31:00 p.m. that evening. She read it 16 seconds later. She read another text from the same group text at 8:49:27 p.m. But she never read a 9:34:14 p.m. text from Rogan Gibson.
Dove: John Marvin had texted Maggie and other relatives that evening saying he planned to visit his father, Randolph Murdaugh III, in the hospital the next day and asking who else was planning to go.
Dove: Alex Murdaugh texted Maggie at 9:08:58 p.m. that evening, around the time he left Moselle. She never read it.
Prosecutors are reviewing findings from Maggie's phone data with Dove, including that her phone was unplugged from power at 8:17:15 p.m. At 8:49:27 p.m., she got a text (from the family group chat) and opened her phone to read it.
The state is building something here Prosecutor: data show Maggie's phone orientation changed (portrait to landscape) in the minutes after Maggie's phone locked for the rest of the night. (It locked 8:49:31 p.m.) Only a small number of things could cause that, Dove testifies.
Dove testifies that based on the changing of the phone's orientation and the one-second activation of the phone's camera, it appears someone who wasn't Maggie picked up the phone. The camera activated and scanned their face, but didn't unlock the phone.
The phone changed orientation and its camera activated at 8:54 p.m., five minutes after the device locked. Maggie's phone wasn't unlocked again until after 1 p.m. the next day, 6/8/21.
OK, this is something here: Prosecutor establishes that Maggie's phone orientation changed again to portrait at 9:06:12 p.m. that night, indicating someone held it up in their hand (according to Dove). Two seconds later, the phone gets an incoming call from Alex Murdaugh.
The prosecutor is establishing a 2-second distance between when someone holds up Maggie's phone and when Alex calls it. Seeming to imply that Alex killed Maggie, grabbed her phone and began holding it up with one hand while he called it with the other.
Maggie gets a couple more text messages after that, one from Rogan Gibson asking her to have Paul call him. And one from Alex Murdaugh at 9:47:23 p.m.: "Call me babe."
She never read either. Her phone wasn't used again until the next day, when investigators found it.
I have taken 26 pages of notes.
This prosecutor is Assistant Attorney General John Conrad, by the way.
Maggie's phone recorded 38 steps on 6/7/21 at 8:17 pm, 43 steps at 8:30 pm and 59 steps at 8:53 pm The last 59 steps were after the phone had locked for good, around the time the phone tried to scan a face but didn't unlock. Then no more steps until it was found the next day.
Prosecutor Conrad tells the judge that he's at a good stopping point, and we break for the day. That's a lot to simmer on.
We wouldn't be able to see them even if they had those diagrams.
Conrad jumped back and forth throughout the timeline. Going to do some homework tonight to try to make sense of that.
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From today's third and fourth witnesses:
Third witness: Paul David McManigal
McManigal is currently a sergeant with the Charleston County Sheriff's Office. He's assigned to the U.S. Secret Service cyber-fraud taskforce as a digital forensic examiner.
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McMangial said he also tried to unlock Paul Murdaugh's iPhone 11 on June 9. He could not unlock it, however.
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Fourth witness: Jonathan VanHouten
VanHouten is currently a civilian who works for the U.S. Secret Service. He is a former investigator with the Columbia Police Department, where he was a taskforce officer with the Secret Service.
VanHouten said he used a tool called Cellbrite Premium to unlock Paul's phone, which was necessary to get to the data to encrypt it. He was able to open it in March of 2022 and he testified that the phone's data was not wiped.
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Thank you! It’s interesting that Sled didn’t have the software to open iPhones. It’s sad that investigations are only as strong as who is conducting them.
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